r/SVUncensored

Pic 1-Olivia arrives at Forlini’s, 93 Baxter Street

Pic 2-“I know what it’s like to love someone unconditionally”

Pic 3-“Rafa…”

Pic 4-“What?”

Pic 5-“I miss you too.”

Pic 6-his final exit from L&O SVU

I was starting to itch...

Gif 1 from Devastating Story (S16E18), Gif 2 from Granting Immunity (S16E19), gifs 3-4 from Surrendering Noah (S16E23), Gif 5 from Criminal Pathology (S17E2), Gif 6 from Institutional Fail (S17E4), gifs 7-9 from Community Policing (S17E5).

Also awhile ago someone said something about wanting my gifs on Giphy, so I made an account. Here is my Barba collection so you guys can have them to keep. 👍

https://giphy.com/channel/Reasonable-Bus2680/rafael-barba

Showrunner Michele Fazekas tells TVLine that she had plans to bring Chris Meloni's character back two other times during the season.

In both cases, she adds, Meloni's busy schedule made Stabler's return impossible.

"We had a scene in the crossover that he was not available for," she says. (Fans will recall that, just Episode 9 began — aka the "SVU" half of the "Law & Order" and "SVU" crossover event in January — Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson made a call to her former partner, alerting him to a possible hate group.)

In addition, "I thought about bringing him into the season finale," she says. "But I don't regret it, because the scene [in Episode 20] with Velasco and Benson was probably the scene that I would have done with Stabler and Benson" in the season-ender, she explains. "And I actually really liked that it was Velasco."

Read More: https://www.tvline.com/2173443/law-and-order-svu-season-27-christopher-meloni-planned-stabler-episodes/

What surprises me is that almost no one noticed that Captain Olivia Benson and Detective Jake Griffin seemed like mother and son in this twenty-seventh season. A relationship that took a very unusual turn, to say the least.

In "A Waiver of Consent" (Season 27 Episode 2), Griffin's behavior displeased Benson, and this almost led to his transfer. Initially, we thought the same situation that occurred with Rollins and Velasco would happen. But as the season progressed, their dynamic took a different approach.

>!In "Showdown" (Season 27, Episode 8), when the rookie detective made a biased and irresponsible DD5 report on Nikki Suarez's case, and ADA Carisi wanted to decapitate him, Olivia promptly defended Jake, saying that if he was going to fight with anyone, it should be with her, which is unusual, as I expected the captain herself to severely reprimand the rookies as she did in other seasons for these mistakes. And then, when Benson met with her team and Griffin handed over his transfer papers, she tore them up and comforted the detective. And even when Chief Kathryn Tynan said that the detective and her protégé acted like a fool in court, Olivia promptly defended him, saying that he acted well in the face of the adversity of that unfavorable trial.!<

>!But what triggered this process was in "Frequency" (Season 27, Episode 14), during the rescue of an autistic boy from the hands of a human monster. Jake felt open to talking more about his past and his autistic brother to Benson, while the captain advised and calmed him in that extreme situation when the rookie was getting out of control. After the successful outcome, Detective Griffin praised the captain and mentioned that his mentor, Chief Tynan, was right about her. Then Olivia came with that speech that sounded quite hypocritical and true considering who she is, about good and bad leaders. And this advice itself ended up awakening the feeling of turning against his former mentor, a feeling that only a real mother would awaken in a son!<.

>!Which leads us to the episode "Impropriety" (Season 27, Episode 19), where Jake tried to intercede for Captain Benson, so as not to harm her and seek to ally himself with her. Tynan, for her part, didn't even listen to him, which made it even more frustrating for the rookie when Tynan decided to suspend Benson arbitrarily. This infuriated Griffin and made him seek revenge to free Benson from this trap, culminating in "Monster" (Season 27, Episode 21), when Griffin confronted Tynan about his father's false reputation and how he had become corrupted to save them both. His mentor ended up confessing everything and the reasons behind it, without realizing that the rookie Jake had wiretapped their conversation, all to protect his new mentor, Captain Olivia Benson, from an injustice done to his boss.!<

>!And after the outcome that almost cost Jake his life, Tynan had the audacity to want to suspend Benson again, but this time the captain turned the tables on her superior thanks to her new protégé, leveling the playing field in this war between them. But what's most surprising is that Olivia called Jake a "hero," something practically unheard of for her with any of her subordinates, and she even stayed alone talking to him and caring for him like a mother worrying about a sick child.!<

All these situations mentioned lead us to notice the maternal bond between the captain and her rookie detective in this twenty-seventh season; Benson didn't even have time for a relationship like that with Noah in this season.

Indeed, SVU takes some very unusual turns.

How the franchise has been turning "nobodies" — like Samuel L. Jackson, Clare Danes, Adam Driver and Timothée Chalamet — into A-list actors for 35 years.

Before Timothée Chalamet set foot on Arrakis, before Pedro Pascal started battling post-apocalyptic fungi, before Bradley Cooper, Viola Davis and Samuel L. Jackson became Bradley Cooper, Viola Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, they all underwent the same New York actor initiation: showing up on Law & Order to get murdered, accused of murder, arrested, raped, stabbed, stalked, strangled or — in John Stamos’ case — commit condom-related crimes too weird to get into here.

Since the franchise began shooting on the streets of New York in 1990, it has become more than a rite of passage for hungry young actors — it’s become the East Coast’s most reliable incubator of future stars. Michael B. Jordan, Kerry Washington, Claire Danes, Idris Elba, J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney, among scads of others, all got their start by getting interrogated by Jerry Orbach or Mariska Hargitay.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/law-and-order-actors-break-1236585531/

Excited about the end of the season?

What do you think will happen?

Do you think this is the last we see of Chief Tynan?

Did you like Season 27?

What were your favorite parts?

What were your least favorites?

Any other thoughts?

Criticisms abound regarding the twenty-seventh season, and almost all of them are justified: the SVU team no longer has a personal life, the older members don't even seem like good friends anymore, Benson's rival, Chief Tynan, has become a cartoonish villain, and they gave more screen time and storyline to the rookie Detective Jake Griffin this season.

And I fully agree with these criticisms, but this twenty-seventh season also did good things, bringing a more nostalgic tone to its older fans, bringing more unusual cases and special victims.

But above all, causing a drastic change in Olivia Benson, erasing the hypocritical bureaucratic behavior she had in previous seasons.

This behavior, which involved reprimanding her subordinates for committing actions outside the law, emphasized doing everything within the law. This sounds quite hypocritical considering the actions she took during her time as a detective when she bent the law in the name of survivor's justice. More than that, she constantly reprimanded subordinates she previously disliked, being cold and harsh with Rollins, Velasco, and Muncy.

But this version of Captain Olivia Benson in the twenty-seventh season went against the grain compared to previous seasons. She became less harsh and cold and more of a leader like her former mentor Donald Cragen. In "Showdown" (Season 27, Episode 8), Olivia defended her team instead of giving her usual reprimands and warnings, encouraging and praising them despite their failures.

But the biggest change of all is between her and the rookie Detective Jake Griffin. Of course, she came with her justified intimidation, not tolerating cowboys acting as they please in her department. But as the episodes progressed, Benson's behavior towards Griffin changed; she began to advise, encourage, and even comfort him during his difficult times. Olivia was practically a mother to Jake. I was even more amazed that she was being more of a mother to him than to Noah in the entire season.

And at the end of the season, Benson hailed Griffin as a hero in front of Tynan. She never said anything like that to any of her subordinates when they faced extremely dangerous situations, further emphasizing her maternal behavior towards him.

But the biggest proof of Olivia Benson's return from the Old Testament was her final confrontation this season with Chief Kathryn Tynan. Tynan found yet another "cause" to remove Benson from SVU, and Olivia, in turn, showed that she would no longer be intimidated by her, revealing the recorded confession of her conversation with Griffin. Now, let's think about it: if Benson were acting like a hypocritical bureaucrat, she would have set a trap for her boss, taking the recording of Tynan's confession to the IAB and the NYPD's higher-ups, thus ruining Tynan's career once and for all.

But then Olivia came out with this statement:

"I'm not interested in ruining your career, Chief.

I'm really not.

But I'm not going to let you ruin mine."

Despite everything she went through at the hands of her new superior, Benson dictated, "Leave me and my team alone," using not only a subtle threat but also a great gesture of camaraderie between police officers and leaders.

That was a gesture only the Olivia Benson of the Old Testament would use.

And I have no words to describe my happiness at having this legendary warrior back in the fight.

I thought he seemed like a natural, and it felt long overdue.

The only part that perhaps didn't feel as authentic was (see comments), but they both handled it well.

I personally wouldn't mind to see more Sargeant Fin in action.

It must be the way he chooses to handle it. Confidence (even fake confidence) is hot as f***!

Look, I'm not a fan of Velasco's axing and have been thrilled with his drop ins this season. Seems like now that he's no longer a series regular, the writers have finally decided to give him more meaningful story arcs.

In the most recent episode, he drops some pearls of wisdom on Olivia.

Loving that they're keeping him in the universe, similar to Kelli Giddish who appeared in no less than 5 episodes per season after her axing until her eventual return.

Fingers crossed 🤞🏽

Gifs 1&2 from Comic Perversion (S15E15), Gif 3 from Downloaded Child (S15E19), Gifs 4&5 from Reasonable Doubt (S15E22), Gifs 6-9 from Thought Criminal (S15E23).

Enjoy! 😘

Gifs 1-3 from Military Justice (S15E8), gifs 4-6 from Rapist Anonymous (S15E9), Gif 7 from Jersey Breakdown (S15E12), Gifs 8&9 from Betrayal's Climax (S15E13).

No idea what I'm going to do with myself once I've milked every gif out of Raúl's time on SVU. Might have to move on to Hannibal after that. 😂